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[Donkeymog]

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Discuss.

(I have consumed too much sugar).

[toysintheattic]

A theater near me is playing all of the Nolan Batman movies in one night leading up to the midnight showing of Dark Knight Rises. I'm hyped.

[Donkeymog]

/>A theater near me is playing all of the Nolan Batman movies in one night leading up to the midnight showing of Dark Knight Rises. I'm hyped.

At first I misread this as "all the Nolan movies" and it blew my mind. And then I re-read and it makes a lot more sense.

I'd really love to see the Prestige in a cinema. I think that's my favourite Nolan, but nobody else seems to like it as much as I do.

[Stars]

I hated The Prestige so much... Partly because I love The Illusionist, and someone had told me, "It's kinda like that movie" (which it's not), but mostly because I hated both of the main characters.

EDIT: But I am looking forward to The Dark Knight Rises.

[toysintheattic]

A Christopher Nolan marathon, that'd be insane. I never even saw Inception or The Dark Knight in theaters.

I watched The Prestige pretty much on your recommendation, Bean, and I liked it a lot. David Bowie Nikola Tesla alone makes it worth it. Memento's pretty clever, too. I think the only one I haven't seen is Insomnia.

[Donkeymog]

/>I hated The Prestige so much... Partly because I love The Illusionist, and someone had told me, "It's kinda like that movie" (which it's not), but mostly because I hated both of the main characters.

Man, you must be crazy. I've spoken to a lot of people who said they hadn't bothered to watched the Prestige because they'd heard it was like Illusionist and that they thought The Illusionist was crap. Because so many people have told me that I have never watched The Illusionist.

I thought all three of the main characters were awesome.

[Monkeydog]

Oh man, seriously Stars, you like The Illusionist more than The Prestige?

The Prestige is sooooooooooooo much better and has David Bowie (one of the world's greatest people) as Tesla (the world's greatest person).

The Illusionist is so meh.

[Donkeymog]

I think the point of the film was that you're not meant to like Wolverine or Batman. That they've sacrificed the good things in their lives for the sakes of their rivalry and their obsession. And that is the tragedy of the film.

Free electricity for EVERYONE! (I'm sure I used to understand the science behind how Tesla achieved this but now my brain hurts when I wiki him)

[Stars]

I'm not even sure why people compare the two movies. The only thing they have in common is the stage magic theme.
I will concede that I enjoyed Tesla. He and the "Are you watching closely?" line at the end were about the only things I remember liking.

[Monkeydog]

/>I'm not even sure why people compare the two movies. The only thing they have in common is the stage magic theme.

Because they came out at the same time and how often do you see early 1900s stage magic movies? I can not even name another. Presto?

[Stars]

Ah, I didn't know they came out close together. I hadn't heard of either one until they were out on dvd. xp

[Donkeymog]

I want George Lucas to die really soon so that the final three Star Wars films can be made by the Nolan brothers. Seriously, how bad-ass would that be? It's for the greater good!

[Vicious Parker]

On the Prestige/Illusionist topic... I enjoyed The Prestige, except for the editing. I don't think it quite worked for me. And I enjoyed the illusionist... except for the ending. Which was basically just the ending of The Usual Suspects. But old-timey.

And yes, Batman. Must find time to go see this next weekend.

[Donkeymog]

/>I enjoyed The Prestige, except for the editing.

I'm intrigued. I don't think I've ever come out of a film feeling overly critical of the editing. But this is probably because of my general ignorance about film makings. What are the observable symptoms of bad editing?

Or do you mean script editing? As in they could have cut bits out? Have you read the book it's based on? HEAPS was cut out.

[kspr]

Tom Hardy is the fuckin man. Has anyone seen Bronson? his Bane is going to be tremendous.

im meh on Catwoman... anne hathaway thinks 'maturing as an actress' means showing her boobs.

and christian bale is nuts too. he filmed The Machinist i think less than six months before that boxing movie he did.

[Vicious Parker]

/>I'm intrigued. I don't think I've ever come out of a film feeling overly critical of the editing. But this is probably because of my general ignorance about film makings. What are the observable symptoms of bad editing?

I was going to try to explain myself, but the more that I try to think of what I meant, the more I realize that I haven't seen this movie in some time. I basically just meant showing things out of chronological order, but now I can only really think of one scene where they did that. I think I need to go watch this movie again.

[Donkeymog]

Has anyone seen this yet? I'm waiting three weeks so I can go see it with my brother.

[Monkeydog]

/>Has anyone seen this yet? I'm waiting three weeks so I can go see it with my brother.

It's not out yet.

[Donkeymog]

oops! Thought it was out on the 14th for some reason. Not sure why that is.

[Hyperlisk]

The Prestige was so Batman. I liked it.